Q: Best workflow between Photos and Lightroom

Yes!! This is my life too. And what a life it is! Thank you for posting and verbalizing the problem/process. It seems not understood by Apple/Adobe. Are we missing something?

Yes - What you are missing is that both LR and Photos do exactly the same job in different, mutually exclusive ways - there is no possible work flow combining them - all you can do is export from one and import into the other which is what the OP is doing

LN

For many reasons "show in finder" simply can not be offered - with Photos there is no guarantee that there is a file to show in the finder even available so the only way to get what you want is to use Photos to get it - this is on top of the issues often created by users moving or changing the files in the library  once they access them Library corruption and causing data loss -

And then most people find Photos as easy or easier to use than iPhoto - maybe you simply need some assistance - what specific ease of use issues do you see with Photos vs iPhoto?

LN

Photos is a new and different program and if you approach it assuming that it is iPhoto you will continue to be frustrated - it does have a learning curve and it does have different work flows - but as we all know different does not equate to inferior - in fact it often means things are improved

 

 

Photos is still an annoyance IMO. For instance this idea to force pictures into timings/locations together, often with absurd names that you cannot change is vastly inferior to the old system of rolls where you could regroup action over a couple of days and give a meaningful name. It would be fine if it was a geolocation/time view but it's forced down your throat. Not nice.

With Photos you do that using albums - selecting Photos and adding them to albums is pretty much identical to moving photos among events - if fact it may be quicker and easier - and Rolls have not been around for over eight years - they were last used in iPhoto 6 - events replaced Rolls in iPhoto '08 - in Photos moments replace events

And you are not at all forces to use Moments any more than you were forces to use events - they are a default, automatic organization and if they do no suit you then you can use albums, smart albums and folders and build any organization you like  --  Personally I mush prefer Photos and moments/collections/years are much better than either rolls or events were - I no longer am forced to use albums since moments do what I like and need -

Of course this then gets us a bit off piste but I still don't understand why a company with the vast resources of Apple has done its best to sabotage its pro apps and to dumb down its iWork apps to the point where you can longer use them for 'advanced amateur' or 'small business' utilisation. We were told functionality would return as iOS versions matured - it hasn't been the case at all.

No one except Apple knows and speculation on their policies is not allowed here - but if you look at their business and see that they have built the largest company in the world and sell the most used camera in the world I think you will see that with Photos the integration of the iPhone, Mac and IOS devices is a major innovation (and does not benefit from Pro features - it is a giant consumer market and Apple does extremely well in it - even the advanced amateurs here love the integration - for example for me it makes life so much easier - on world wide trips I take my iPhone, iPad, a digital camera and a MBA and pretty much download photos to the MBA daily form teh camera and have it and the IOS devices on WiFi at night do they sync - then all of this syncs back to my large iMac at home and when I get home all of my photos are there and backed up and organized to the extent tha tI do organization while on the road - for me this a one giant improvement over bringing 2000 to 3000 photos home form a trip and spending weeks importing and organization them

And while Photos is not and is not intended to be a pro program it comes closer to meeting pro needs than iPhoto ever did

But  real pros they need pro software and Apple simply was not competitive with LR and other pro products so they dropped Aperture and enhanced Photos - and from the announcements it sounds like OS X Sierra will continue that path with many more enhancements

LN

As posted

on world wide trips I take my iPhone, iPad, a digital camera and a MBA and pretty much download photos to the MBA daily form teh camera and have it and the IOS devices on WiFi at night do they sync - then all of this syncs back to my large iMac at home and when I get home all of my photos are there and backed up and organized to the extent tha tI do organization while on the road

I am not shooting RAW at all but if I did it would be only with my camera which a download to the MBA daily and with ICPL any device I organize on syncs to all others - although generally I do that on the MBA  - and it all syncs back to My iMac at home (slowly sometimes but with 8 to 10 hours a night to run it does

Very easy and efortless

LN